Andrew Tate: Good or Bad success ?

By Elena Keller Last update 27/03/23

Since the beginning of 2021, Andrew Tate has been seen and heard by everyone on the internet. With a large community on Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram, Tate has become a polarizing figure among the young generation. Many see him as a source of inspiration with his rich habits and fancy cars; others see him as a controversial and misogynistic influencer.

Tate’s notoriety has been fuelled by a series of scandals and bad publicity over the years. Many videos of him beating women or even racist and homophobic tweets have generated a lot of hatred towards him. However, this negative attention has only increased his visibility.

Despite his controversial ideas, Tate is also known for being an inspirational figure. He is known for his quotes such as “your mind must be stronger than your feelings.” He calls himself as a coach for entrepreneur giving advice and helping others to become successful in their field.

How did he gain popularity?

Andrew Tate started his life in the US but soon moved to Luton in England due to his father low income. He demonstrated great abilities in chess when he was young and in kickboxing.

Andrew Tate’s career started in the 2000s as a kickboxer. He won the international Sport Karate Association (ISKA) title in 2011 achieving the name of the 2nd best kickboxer of the world. His income was unsatisfactory so he decided that he wanted to be famous and rich and started working on it.

In 2014 he starts social media and accumulated really fast a large number of followers. His larger-than-life personality and flashy lifestyle quickly earned him a lot of attention among the internet users.

With his brother he created a company of “camgirls”, a certain type of soft porno. After some time his income increases to 600 000 $ per month. But he multiplied it by investing it in crypto currency. At this stage he was rich but not as popular as he wanted.

In 2016 Tate’s career takes a hit, when he participated to the Big Brother show. His participation on the show marred him to several scandals on twitter for having homophobic and racist remarks. A video of him beating a woman with a belt got also shared which was the last straw for the Big Brother show who removed him.

Two years later Tate creates “The War Room” a club present in more than 70 countries. It is an online program that coaches in fitness, seduction, and body language. The entrance price nowadays is more than 4000 £ which earned him millions of dollars.

Why is he so Hated ?

Along the years Andrew Tate raised a lot of controversies. He is known for his Hatred towards women he describe himself as “the king of toxic masculinity.” He got banned from Twitter because he said that “Next point, if you put yourself in a position to be raped, you must bear some responsibility. I’m not saying it’s OK you got raped.” the 18 of October 2017. But then got readmitted.

Today Tate is in prison at Bucharest in Romania for suspicions of human trafficking, rape and formation of a criminal group with his brother.

So at the End ?

In the same year Andrew Tate launches, the “Hustler university” which aims to mentor and coach entrepreneurs to achieve success and money. With this program he gained millions of dollars. However, his image online and behaviour attracts a lot of critics and doubts about his mentor abilities.

Despite all the controversy Tate remains a popular social media personality. Whenever he publishes a video or an interview, the clips are then sent by the Hustlers students in many different platforms including YouTube and TikTok which allows him to gain thousands of new followers each time. TikTok which has a significant number of very young users.

Andrew Tate then wins in power each day because his clips and fan accounts are still on the internet so banning him is impossible.

We can’t deny that Andrew Tate is a really smart and determinate person however he created his fame around illegal activities deceiving of millions of people. His popularity was mainly around negative and misogynist messages.

Paco Martínez´s interview about the danger of social media and the role that companies play in the protection of the ¨ users¨.

by: Sophie Martínez Rossignol - lastupdated13/03/2023.

Paco Martínez Ruiz, who works as a global media manager in ¨ Reckitt¨ a British company that produces global brands has accepted to be interviewed about the risks of social media and the influence of companies in this sector.

How do social media companies select what to show to each user?

How has social media changed over the past decade?

Paco starts by saying, that as some things remain the same such as the social network business model and the way companies want users to spend more time on their screens to earn more revenue, there has been a noticeable evolution in this sector over the past decade.

Firstly, the purpose of social media has change. Platforms of social media were mainly used for communication with people in our inner circle. However, in the past 10 years, people have been using it more and more as an entertainment media and people now days watch videos and images of people they do not know.

Another big change has been the use of artificial intelligence in social media companies, as they select the content that they show to people, according to their preferences, using technology.

The last main change that Paco mentions with concern, is the increase in harmful content, as the objective of many people is not only to entertain but also to spread dangerous or harmful information.

Paco mentions, the ¨ enormous amount of music, images and videos that companies have¨ when they are trying to select the appropriate content for the users. Selecting this would be impossible without technology. Nonetheless, that is not the only role that technology plays. Technology is also widely use to protect the users from the harmful content that can be spread.

What are the risks for users when using social media?

Paco carefully explains that the idea that people have of ¨ harmful¨ is not the same for everyone, therefore the companies must be careful with how they decide what is considered as ¨ harmful¨ and what is not. The Global Alliance for responsible Media (GAM), is an organisation formed by a group of social platforms, that have set standards for the industry, in order to classify the dangerous content. ¨ They have 9 different categories. ¨ Paco explains, ¨ The first one being adult and explicit sexual content; arms and ammunitions; the crime and harmful acts; death, injury and military content; hate speeches; obscenity and profanity; illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol; terrorism and the last category being debate and sensitive social issues which can attack minority groups and behaviours.¨

One of the main challenges for these companies is to detect and block this negative content on time. ¨ Paco explains how the people that spread harmful content are also using different type of technology to be able to show what they want to show, without getting blocked and cancelled from social media.

How can social media improve?

Paco said that in order for social media to improve, it is important that people have access to different kind of information. Social media could give the opportunity to raise awareness about certain social issues and give access to content that could help people complementing their education. This information could be spread around the world and not only within a country or a specific community.

It has also been mentioned that ¨ social media platforms could organise better this information to reinforce different important topics and not only to distribute the content, only based in the most popular videos and images, with more likes or which are shared the most. ¨

Users might be satisfied as they receive content that they like and share, but the negative effect of companies selecting this kind of content, is that it might narrow down the vision that people have about other topics. This will reinforce people´s own belief even if they are unethical and harmful for themselves and for the rest of the society.

What would be a good advice for the users of social media?

As a conclusion, Paco encourages all the social media users to analyse the information and the news that they receive and their reliability.

¨ Always think if the information you want to share, could be eventually used against you, or for a different purpose as the things we share in social media, will always remain somewhere. ¨ The last advice Paco gives to the users, is to report harmful and offensive content to protect the users themselves, but also to help the social media platforms to develop a better system to identify this type of negative content.

by Riho Iseki

Exploring the Potential Risks of Using Pinterest

Did you know about Pinterest?

Pinterest is a popular app for collecting pictures all over the world ！ Pinterest has been used by 8,700,000 people since 2010. You can get high-quality images and ideas from the pictures on Pinterest. On the other hand, there are some risks when you use it. You will know what to watch out for and how to use Pinterest properly after reading my whole article.

Do we have any risks?

Harmful links

There is a function in which a user can add links with a picture. This means a user can post a link with a picture even if it is a scamming link or a harmful one. Therefore, it is advisable not to click on links if you are unsure of their legitimacy as harmful links can be difficult to identify beforehand.

If you really can trust a name of the link, you can click it, however, I do not recommend doing so as harmful links can be difficult to identify nowadays.

Copyright

As you already know, not all pictures on Pinterest have free copyright, so it would be copyright infringement when you used a picture from Pinterest in your jobs or other commercial places without any permission. Especially, some pictures of celebrities or drawings are often posted on Pinterest without any permission from the people who took the picture or drew the painting.

Terms of service

On the terms of service, it says when you are sued due to copyright infringement, you must pay your costs of a lawsuit and Pinterest's costs of a lawsuit. Most people don’t read terms of service carefully, however there are some important things which you must know, you are supported to go through before you start using it.

Advertisements

There are numerous advertisements on Pinterest and sometimes harmful advertisements are hidden, so you must watch out and basically you should not enter advertisements on Pinterest.

How to use properly?

 Don't click a link on Pinterest if you cannot trust the link.

 Take anti-virus protection.

• I recommend taking anti-virus protection because we may enter harmful websites accidentally.

 Read the terms of service of Pinterest carefully before you start using it .

 Watch out for copyright when you use pictures on your job. (It is better to not use pictures from Pinterest when you are not sure.)

Even if you searched for a ‘free-copyright picture’ on Pinterest, some pictures may still be copyrighted, as the pictures shown depending on your preferences. If you have a strong preference, the pictures are influenced by your preference, and you will not able to obtain images which you want to get right now.

Conclusion

Pinterest is a great app to collect pictures easily and your works will be helped by Pinterest as you use it, however there are some potential risks when you use it. If you have not started using it, just make an account and sign up after you read this guideline!!

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/

Is it art?

Newly introduced technology has been changing the perspectives on artwork.

Risa Hamamatsu

Artificial intelligence (AI) is human-made technology in which human intelligence is inserted into computer systems. It has only been 70 years since the first AI was created, and its intelligence has become very close to us. The first AI was developed by Stanford University, in which a robot could move freely within a space. In 1966, the first language-processing AI was born, called ELIZA. Since then, the development of AI accelerated. It was thought that AI doesn’t have any emotions and creativity, but is it really true?

Generative AI

Creativity was one thing that computers can’t mimic. However, generative AI could process all the data to create something new. Stable Diffusion is a website released in 2022, that can turn the inputted words into an image. It has studied billions of images, and the AI will use that knowledge gained from existing images to create an artwork or a picture. Those artworks are high quality, and even art specialists can’t identify if it is made by humans or not. The other websites are capable of turning a photo into art too.

There was a controversy when one of the designers, Jason Allen, won a digital art competition using generative AI. As it has already been stated that this competition needed the involvement of technology at some point. In contrast, some people commented that Jason Allen’s digital painting is mostly done by AI, and shouldn’t call that as artwork. On the other hand, he claimed that he had spent more than 80 hours editing the work, which showed that the work was his.

Although that news article caused controversy, even art experts can’t tell the difference between the work of AI and humans. In my point of view, I believe that it can’t be called an art since it processes the existing artwork which means it lacks creativity and originality. However, since AI doesn’t have stereotypes so they could mix a variety of interesting objects to create unique work. Can you call the artwork generated by AI an art?

By Giulia Franchini